The 51st San Blas Marathon of Coamo, My 4th

This is a local story.

One I have covered 3 times in the past. Yes, I’ve reported on this event with great detail so I’ll only be talking about the highlights here.

There are videos of the past Marathons including one that runs the entire route, the morning before the big event, shot from the roof of my car. There is also a map (I made from scratch) of the route over on my Maps Page.

The last chunk of the San Blas Marathon runs back into town along Highway 150. By this point, the runners are pretty spread out. It’s our favorite spot to shoot from. We had a very nice day overall with overcast kicking in about the time the run got started.

As always, it was a very carnival like atmosphere.

Lots of food, lots of drink, the smell of roast pork everywhere and music coming at you from all directions.

I love it!

I even got a nice ‘swig’ of Pitorro from a squeeze bag out of the deal. SWEET!

The party from the night before did not slow down until 3AM.

A steady parade of cars, jeeps and bikes started up again about 8AM… it did not end until the cops closed off the route around 2PM. After that, it’s just the neighbors and local folk milling around, making conversation. A very family oriented moment!

As was my previous observation, the Cops were out in full force for the day’s events.

I used this opportunity to fire up my new video action-cam… A Sony AS10.

I have not had a chance to view any of the footage, but I assume some of it will be OK for editing down. That will come in a couple more weeks. Video is very time consuming and why I have not done more.

Believe me, I want to.

UPDATE! The 51st Annual San Blas Video is live and ready to view!

The 21Km San Blas Half Marathon takes a hour for the first runners to cross the finish line. The main mass of runners finish in about 2 hours with balance crossing the line after 3 and a half hours. At that point, it’s too dark to get anymore shots.

As always, me First Mate and I tried to get shots of everyone that passed by us at about the 15Km mark. She actually got more stills than I since I was trying to keep up with video while shooting stills. Not an easy task. To add insult to injury, the light was pretty flat due to the overcast for most of the run. I did what I could for the shots. I processed slightly over 125 images.

Not all shots were suitable for enlargement. So it goes.

We also have a dedicated page of Runners’ pictures from the San Blas Marathon with lots more shots of the runners. Two big pages of pictures with names and stats this time – and a page of most interesting people seen there.. Our contribution to a very local event. Coamo is a very special place.

Another great day, all in all!